Aus dem Buch: "Germany is our problem" von Henry Morgenthau, dem Verfasser des Morgenthau-Plans, der Deutschland in einen Agrarstaat verwandeln sollte als Rache für den II. WK.

https://dn710107.ca.archive.org/0/items/MorgenthauHenryGermanyIsOurProblemEN1945120P./M...

Seite 31:

Out of that number, it should be possible—within a reasonable time and with the sacrifices of comfort
and leisure which the Germans formerly made for war—to place 5,000,000 more workers on the farms,
bringing the total agricultural labor force up to 14,000,000.
That would leave 11,000,000 workers to be employed in Germany's transportation, trade, public
services and light industries. It is worth noting that even under the pressure of war preparation in 1939, total employment in [49] the group of heavy industries to be forbidden Germany was only a little over 4,000,000.

The exact methods by which the 5,000,000 new workers will be transferred to the farms is a German
problem. But the way in which it might be done can be indicated.
If the German people are to make the best use of their soil, they are going to have to substitute the work of human hands for machinery for several years to come. The world's entire output of tractors, combines and so on will be needed by Germany's victims for a long time. Even with the increased plant facilities in this country and England, it will take years to supply the farms of ourselves and our Allies.

The Germans will have to rely upon themselves. That means intensive cultivation of the best food
crops possible.

More production of high nutrition crops can be obtained on small farms, especially when the big
machines that make large-scale agriculture profitable are missing. Germany will have to break up the
big estates to settle her extra 5,000,000 farm workers productively on family farms. At two workers to the family, this would mean 2,500,000 new farms.

Und hier auf Seite 36:

The 34,000 big landowners of Germany, and particularly die Junkers, have shown themselves
unworthy cultivators of their 37,000,000 acres, as well as a collective peril to the peace of mankind.

They had only 12,725,000 acres in crops. Their land, suitably divided, would enable hundreds of
thousands of peasants who own less than five acres apiece to have enough to utilize their full labor
productively.

Or if 24,000,000 acres were divided up into twelve-acre farms, 2,000,000 families totaling several
million individuals could be settled on new homesteads. Twelve acres are more than the average
prewar German peasant owned. Still more workers could make farms out of reclaimed wasteland,
military camps, airfields and so on. The rest of the new agricultural workers would have to clear forest for their farms or bring pasture under the plow.

Millions of man-years of good hard work could be put into draining swamps, terracing hills for
cultivation, clearing cut-over forest, putting back into productive use the vast acreage ruined by being turned into army camps, artillery proving grounds, training fields, etc.

The transition from factory to farm will be much easier for Germans than for most urban dwellers.
Even more than with us, the present generation of industrial workers has been recruited from farms. An even greater number are the sons and daughters of farmers.

6 ha pro kleinem Bauernhof schlägt er vor... Das Problem ist, die "Junker", die er so haßt und die er enteignen will, waren meist in Ostpreußen und in Pommern zugegen, auch in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Schlechter Boden, Endmoränen der Eiszeit, Bodenzahlen 40 und darunter, steinig, hügelig, oft auch noch sumpfig, höchstens zum Roggenanbau geeignet. Arme-Leute-Getreide. Nicht Vorderpalz und Rheinhessen, Zuckerrüben, Weizen mit anständigen Erträgen, Sonne, Wein, Obst, Gemüse etc.

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